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Show Attractions At The Theaters Hailed as "193!J's greatest screen adventure" by preview critics, Columbia's new Howard Hawks production "Only Angels Have Wings" has its Springville premier on Sunday at t'he Rivoll theatre. Gary Grant and Jean Arthur, appearing together for the first time, are starred in the new film, said to be compounded compound-ed of tropical romance and thrilling thrill-ing adventure in South America. Advance information concerning concern-ing the production calls this Hawks creation the greatest the I famous producer-director of popular pop-ular pictures has ever filmed. Neither time nor expense was spared in the filming and some of the most elaborate sets ever conceived and built in Hollywood were used for all except the flying fly-ing sequences. "Only Angela Have Wings" concerns a commercial aviation fteld operated in a little South Ameiican banana port by Gary Grant. His pilots are a desperate desper-ate crew of devil-may-care adventurers ad-venturers willing to fiy any old crate with wings into any sort of weather. Jean Arthur, a show girl whose troupe has broken up farlner south, arrives on the weekly banana freighter en route to Panama. She falls in love with Grant and decides to stay. But Cary, a confirmed philanderer, turns his attentions to Rita Hay-worth, Hay-worth, the wife of Richard Bar-thelmcss, Bar-thelmcss, one of his newly arrived ar-rived fliers. Thomas Mitchell as a "punch-drunk" "punch-drunk" aviator, victim of many a crackup, and Sig Rum an as the Dutchman, amiable old Hollander Hol-lander who runs the combination combina-tion hotel and bar-room of the town as well as the airport, have outstanding roles in this thriller. Important parts, too, are played by Noah Beery Jr., Allyn jos-lyn, jos-lyn, Donald Barry, Melissa Sierra, Victor Kilian, Vernon Dent and Pat West. With Joan Fontaine portraying the leading lady, and with Louis Hayward, Richard Carlson,. Tom Brown and Alan Curtis appearing appear-ing as the four important males in the story, the thrilling adventures adven-tures and romances of plebas enrolled en-rolled at the United States Military Mili-tary Academy are humorously and dramatically unfolded in Edward Ed-ward Small's "The Duke of West Point," which is scheduled for its initial showing at the Rivoli theater on Friday. As the story opens, Steve Early ariives from England, where he has been spectacularly successful on the Cambridge Varsity Rugby Rug-by team, to start life as a West Point cadet. Accustomed to a goodly amount of pampering by his wealthy parents and society tiiends, Steve is "meat" for the yearling" corporals who proceed j to make his life thoroughly mis- i erable and to take him down sev- i eral pegs. How Steve, along with the other plebes, go from one mis-adventure to another, weathering weath-ering storms and heartbreak until un-til the thrilling climax, when West Point plays its annual ice hockey game with the Royal Military College of Canada, is : told in a .series of fast-moving, 1 poignant scenes: Among the outstanding .sequences .se-quences which appear in the film ere included the famous Flirtation Flirta-tion Walk of West Point, the Administration building, the "beast barracks.' the Cadet Chapel, Trophy Point, Sally port, the Post Office, Grant Hall, the Mess Hall, Cullum Hall and the cadet store nil famous landmarks land-marks in the Ufa of every plcbe. Joan Fontaine, who was recruited re-cruited by Producr Small lo play the feminine role in "Gunga Din" is the attractive lady who causes collective fluttering of hearts among the young cadels. Partnered at the beginning of the story with Alan Curtis, sh becomes the "heart Interest" of Louis Hayward. when carrying a mattress, he stumbles on the curb, does a dizzy spin, falls flat on his lace at the feet of the lovely heroine, and is thus unconventionally un-conventionally introduced. |